It's not 'just' the money saving directive, it's what you do with what you got!
Maybe the costs mean one has to make the remaining 19 aircraft work harder or more efficiently and this is where the regime let's itself down.
The vast majority of the board and the overseers are cops. Cops are good, we all know that and very efficient they are too when it comes to traditional policing. BUT this is not and never has been a traditional means of policing. The aviation world is complex, buying maintaining and operating the right aircraft to carry out this policing is complex and requires experts in the field.
How many aviation epxerts are left on the NPAS board - ONE. He knows who he is. He is responsible for providing the right technical information and the most effective operational inputs to make the 'model' work.
Rumour has it he is just waiting out his time and his pension before he retires and his inputs are virtually non existent these days....is that right I wonder.
4 x FW is an example where the aviation expert has been derelict in his duty, I would suggest.
It must be wearing having to keep his head above water amongst all those cops.
